THE COVENANT WITH GOD: SUMMARY
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Covenant With God
a) The Bible tells us that "Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, because he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is based on better promises" (Hebrews 8:6-8). This makes us realize that, if we want an involvement with God that accords with God's grace and will, then we must comply with the covenant Jesus Christ has mediated to us.
2. Summary
a) All men have an involvement with God because the Son of God has shed his blood for all and thereby mediated the new covenant to all. The gospel of Christ is a covenant which God has made binding on all people, therefore all people are involved with God either as his enemies and under a curse because they reject the gospel, or as his sons and under grace because they accept the gospel.
b) Our involvement and relationship with God is determined by our covenant with God, a covenant not invented or negotiated by us but mediated to us from God by Christ. We can make sure that we have a right relationship and involvement with God simply by believing and obeying the gospel which God has so graciously provided as the only valid covenant between us and him. This covenant was ratified by God's own oath and the shed blood of his own Son.
c) How kind God is to have done this for us, and what fools we are if we do not yield ourselves body and soul to this wonderful covenant with God.
The End ...
1. The Covenant With Goda) The Bible tells us that "Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry, because he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is based on better promises" (Hebrews 8:6-8). This makes us realize that, if we want an involvement with God that accords with God's grace and will, then we must comply with the covenant Jesus Christ has mediated to us.
2. Summary
a) All men have an involvement with God because the Son of God has shed his blood for all and thereby mediated the new covenant to all. The gospel of Christ is a covenant which God has made binding on all people, therefore all people are involved with God either as his enemies and under a curse because they reject the gospel, or as his sons and under grace because they accept the gospel.
b) Our involvement and relationship with God is determined by our covenant with God, a covenant not invented or negotiated by us but mediated to us from God by Christ. We can make sure that we have a right relationship and involvement with God simply by believing and obeying the gospel which God has so graciously provided as the only valid covenant between us and him. This covenant was ratified by God's own oath and the shed blood of his own Son.
c) How kind God is to have done this for us, and what fools we are if we do not yield ourselves body and soul to this wonderful covenant with God.
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